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Keep your Dog Healthy with Routine Health Care | Best Dog Breeds. As a dog owner you are responsible to keep your dog healthy with routine health care. This involves so much more that just regular feeding and exercise. Much of a dog’s care can depend on its age and general health. It can also be driven by your work or social schedule. Regardless, you should keep the following in mind to help ensure that your dog lives a happy, healthy and long life. So, in no particular order: Be watchful– Dog are actually great communicators, if you pay attention.

This is true from “puppyhood” through to their elder years. If there is a problem, chances are it will be diagnosed, treated and resolved quickly saving your pet unnecessary discomfort, trauma, or a more serious outcome down the road. Grooming is more that just looking good– Regular grooming is important on a number of levels. Just a few ideas that will help you to keep your dog healthy with routine health care. <a href=" >Social Bookmarking</a> Money Making Guru #4. Give & Get Free Stuff - Listia.com Auctions for Free Stuff. THE CHICAGO HISTORY JOURNAL. How to use Shareist. Last Night (Being) a DJ Saved My Life. The author as turntablist. Learning to DJ changed my life. It happened right when I needed an empowering kick in the ass, a reminder of what it was to be young, free, and utterly alive at 2:30 AM. New Year’s Eve, 2001: I found myself in Houston, Texas, behind two turntables, armed with someone else’s record collection and some half-broken headphones, at the most holy-shit-this-is-bananas party I have ever been to.

Like, a broken-windows, people-having-sex-on-the-microwave-stand, unexplained-footprints-on-the-ceiling-the-next-morning type of party. I had gone to Houston, on a whim, bought myself a ticket to someplace warm, far from snowy Chicago—a place where I did not know anyone, where I could get together the courage to break up with a boyfriend who was no good to me, but whom I was nevertheless really toxically attached to.

I showed up to the party, and was one of two people there who didn’t drink. Does this sort of thing sounds like fun to you? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. User Profile: Phil. The Cats' Pee Orchid's Life of Deceit. We found a fine display of early purple orchids blooming on the cliff tops south of Seaham, along the Durham coast, today. They're beautiful flowers to look at but less attractive when you smell them, as they emit a strong aroma of cat's urine which is generally repugnant to people but attractive to bees........ which are in for a disappointment when they visit these flowers.

Charles Darwin spent many years studying orchids and was intrigued by their elaborate flowers and complicated pollination arrangements. In his seminal book in the subject, The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, first published in 1862 and which you can download here, he noted that although the flowers have a well developed nectar spur they don't produce any nectar. Bees that visit are duped into exploring one or two flowers in an inflorescence but soon leave when they find no sweet reward - but by then they've performed the essential pollination service that the plant requires. Motorcycles.

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Humans Invent | Innovation, Craftsmanship & Design. Non-science ArticlesQuirky Science. Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow at 9:00 am Sat, May 23, 2015 0 Matthew DeHart, a veteran from a multi-generational military/intelligence family, ran a Tor hidden service server for his Wow guildies, members of his old army unit, and whistleblowers. Read the rest Cory Doctorow at 6:00 am Sat, May 23, 2015 2 Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "NARAL Pro-Choice Texas has a new tee supporting reproductive rights in the Lone Star State: "Texas, We Need To Talk About The Elephant In The Womb" -- a sly dig at the sharply partisan politics that drive the anti-choice movement.

" Read the rest Cory Doctorow at 12:37 am Sat, May 23, 2015 5 After an all-night session, Rand Paul [R-KY] and Ron Wyden [D-OR] tag-teamed majority leader Mitch McConnell [R-KY] and beat him to the mat -- he has abandoned the current legislative effort to extend section 215 of the Patriot Act, which authorizes mass surveillance and is set to expire on June 1. Read the rest Cory Doctorow at 12:00 pm Fri, May 22, 2015 6 Read the rest Read the rest.